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| B-0008357 | biography | Graça Simbine Machel | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0007917 | biography | Margaret Roach Killie Campbell | 1881-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0068000 | biography | Reggie Vandeyar | 1931-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0123686 | biography | King Sarhili kaHintsa | 1815-1892 | ✓ |
| B-0008408 | biography | Samuel Makoanyane | 1909-1944 | ✓ |
| B-0093590 | biography | Ellen Lambert | 1934-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0008261 | biography | Chris Kirchhoff | 1962 | – |
| B-0007790 | biography | Nils Severin Andersen | 1897-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0008542 | biography | Patric Tariq Mellet | 1956 | – |
| B-0009169 | biography | Rick Turner | 1941-1978 | ✓ |
| B-0008401 | biography | Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba | 1956-2003 | – |
| B-0008236 | biography | Nell Kaye | 1912-1969 | – |
| B-0008097 | biography | Christopher W. M. Gell | 1917-1958 | ✓ |
| B-0068152 | biography | Abner S. Mtimkulu | – | – |
| B-0073992 | biography | Petros Molefe | 1924-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0008663 | biography | Elizabeth Maria Molteno | 1852-1927 | ✓ |
| B-0008609 | biography | Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle | 1911-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008084 | biography | Wilhelmina Louisa Freund | 1890-1938 | ✓ |
| B-0068391 | biography | Cassim Saloojee | 1935-2009 | – |
| B-0064872 | biography | Joe “Sdumo” Mafela | 1942-2017 | ✓ |
| B-0089634 | biography | Dora Taylor | 1899-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0073091 | biography | Vuyani Mabaxa | 1967-1991 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0149221 | biography | Petrus Nzima Nyawose | 1982 | ✓ |
| B-0083813 | biography | Mildred Lesiea | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0144655 | biography | Tim Bruwer | – | ✓ |
| B-0008163 | biography | Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwani | 1923-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0068303 | biography | Meshach Pelem | 1859-1936 | – |
| B-0067940 | biography | Cynthia Shange | 1949 | ✓ |
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
Margaret Roach Campbell (Killie Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate,…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
Reggie Vandeyar was born into a poor family on 15 July 1931 in Newclare. His father was originally from India, who had come to South Africa to seek fortune. …
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was…
BiographySamuel Makoanyane
Samuel Makoanyane was born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the Teyateyaneng district…
BiographyEllen Lambert
Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape Province. She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of 19 in…
BiographyChris Kirchhoff
Born in 1962 in Johannesburg, Kirchhoff spend his early years in Norway and Massachusetts before returning to Johannesburg to complete his schooling. He…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
BiographyMuziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba
Trevor Makhoba was born in Umkhumbane, Durban in 1956. His art is uniquely grounded in his experience of life and contemporary events in KwaZulu-Natal. He…
BiographyNell Kaye
Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…
BiographyChristopher W. M. Gell
Christopher Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…
BiographyPetros Molefe
Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German…
BiographyCassim Saloojee
Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was married, Saloojee’s father…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Her mother, Leeya Basolise Nyembe was the daughter of…
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
Vuyani Mabaxa grew up in Diepkloof, Johannesburg. His parents were members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s,…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
BiographyJackson Mbhazima Hlungwani
Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
Meshach Pelem was born in Mxumbu near King William's Town in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in…
BiographyCynthia Shange
Cynthia Shange was born in Lamontville, Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title…